Saturday, June 20, 2009

This is absurd. BNN thinks that statements made on their public airwaves by Canada’s Minister of Finance and Opposition Party Finance Critic are subject to copyright protection? What a joke.....of a network.

Dear YouTube Member:

This is to notify you that we have removed or disabled access to the following material as a result of a third-party notification by Business News Network claiming that this material is infringing Copyright:Flaherty explains why he won't change rules on Income Trusts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF_7ibAgYF0

John McCallum explains Liberal position on Income Trusts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KATbsnjLVEA

6 comments:

And yet we seem to want even MORE private megacorps running our lives. The shit that passes as news in America, is coming here soon. It's a wonder there are still great news agencies in the world, like the BBC.

We have laws for accuracy in advertising, yet we allow blatant lies (or cover-ups) to occur in the media.

Sometimes a pimp just has to do what a pimp has to do, and sometimes the pimp just has to get somebody else's babe off the street. You know, there are only so many Jimmy, Johns, and Ministers that drive by every night.

EVENTS

Income Trust Halloween VigilThanks to all who participated in both the Ottawa and Calgary vigils to mark the anniversary of the announcement.

WE"D LIKE SOME ANSWERS

As you well know, the ‘income trust thing’ has grown beyond the
question of whether fair taxes are paid on income from trusts. It’s
become a giant dirty snowball, and as it rolls forward it accumulates
more and more bulk. There are so many unanswered questions. Let's list a few and invite our "Accountable" government and our free press to provide some much-needed answers.

It is said “Trusts are inefficient use of capital. Why?” Two
related questions are ‘Whose money is it, anyway?’, and ‘Do Canadian
investors have a free and efficient market?’

How can information that is already in the public domain at SEDAR
make for a state secret? How could such information be used to harm
the Canadian national interest? And who would cause the harm?

Why won’t the Canadian media investigate the falsehoods and
misrepresentations told by the Minister of Finance to a committee of
Parliament? Was the Minister in contempt of Parliament?

Why won’t the Canadian media report (a) government tax revenues
gained from BCE in 2006 when BCE was a corporation to (b) government
tax revenues that would be gained in 2007 from BCE, if BCE had been
allowed to proceed to a trust, and (c) government tax revenues that
will be gained in 2007 from BCE, when BCE ownership has been carved
up as 45% foreign ownership and 55% large Canadian pension fund
ownership?